The foreign liquor, casino materials, deerskin and foreign currencies recovered form Helena Jahangir were not illegal, claimed her daughter Jesia Alam.
She said this while briefing the press after the RAB drive ended at Helena Jahangir’s Gulshan residence on Thursday night.
About the recovery of foreign liquor Jesia said, “My bother drinks. Those bottles belong to him. These are his collection. He has liquor license which RAB seized.”
Asked on the deerskin she said, “My mother’s political colleagues gifted the skin as a present at my brother’s wedding. And that was hung on the wall.”
“Casino is a plaything of our pastime. But, we don’t have the board and other equipment to play casino. Just, like playing cards. People play it with family at home. It is something like that. We just had the chips like a toy. People play games at home, don’t they?” Jesia said.
Regarding the foreign notes she said, “We fly abroad ‘randomly’. We travel multiple countries. After we visited any country we cannot waste the remaining money to garbage. Those are the remainders. You will find the information is also available in passport.”
